Costa Freediving LLC · Florida
Privacy Policy
Your details go only to our team, to run your course or plan your adventure. Never sold, never shared for marketing. Last updated September 16, 2026.
The Short Version
This site has no analytics and no ad pixels. The only cookies it sets are the two that keep you signed in, and only if you sign in. The personal information it collects is what you type into its forms: a reservation, a contact enquiry, the travel-advisor application, or your account settings. All of it goes to us, so we can confirm your spot, plan a safe course or adventure, and register your certification with FII.
What We Collect
When you reserve a spot: Your full name, email, phone number, date of birth, the course date you want, anything you choose to tell us in the note, and how you heard about us. If you are 16 or 17, the name, email, and phone number of your parent or guardian.
When you send an enquiry: Your name, email, and phone number, what you are dreaming of, who is coming, when, whether you are working with a travel advisor, and anything else you add.
When we plan an adventure: What you share with us by phone, email, or through your travel advisor to plan it well and safely, such as who is coming and their ages, your travel dates, dietary needs, swimming experience, and the health information in the release and medical forms.
When you apply as a travel advisor: Your name, email, phone, and agency, plus your answers to the application: your affiliations, years advising, website and social profiles, your clients' typical spend and interests, and how you would like to be reached.
When you sign in: The date and count of your sign-ins. In your account settings, if you choose to fill them in: your photo, phone, company, job title, and mailing address.
Why
To confirm your spot and arrange payment, to plan a safe course (your age matters for the FII paperwork and for who needs a guardian), to register your certification with Freediving Instructors International when you pass, to answer your enquiry, plan your adventure, and book the partners it needs, and to review a travel-advisor application and stay in touch with our partners.
Where It Lives
Everything above is stored in one private database on Amazon Web Services in the United States, encrypted at rest. FII requires instructors to keep student records for at least seven years.
A profile photo you upload is stored as a file on the site's public hosting at an unguessable address. Anyone with the exact link can view it, and it appears beside your name in the site's header while you are signed in.
Who Sees It
Our team. Freediving Instructors International (FII): every student is registered with FII, which keeps its own record of you and your certification under its own privacy policy, and emails you directly about its release, medical statement, and certification. Amazon Web Services, which hosts the site and the database and sends email on our behalf. The boat captains, chefs, and other partners who make your adventure happen, and only what they need to do it (a chef hears about your allergies, a captain gets names and headcount). If you tell us you are working with a travel advisor, we may coordinate with them about your trip. Nobody else. We never sell your information and never share it for marketing.
The site sends transactional email only: our notification when you reserve, enquire, or apply, your confirmation when you apply, and the sign-in links and invitations you or we request. It comes from the site's own address, website@costafreediving.com, and replies come straight to us at costa@costafreediving.com. There is no newsletter list. Mail you send to any @costafreediving.com address is kept in a private archive on Amazon Web Services and forwarded to our team.
Cookies And Your Browser
No analytics, no advertising pixels. Signing in sets two cookies that keep you signed in on this site for 60 days; signing out clears them, and a visitor who never signs in gets none. The site also remembers your light or dark theme in your browser. That is all it keeps there.
Your Choices
Want a copy of what we have, a correction, or deletion? Email us and we will take care of it. Deletion is subject to the FII record-keeping obligation above for anyone who has taken a course.
Children
The site's forms are not meant for anyone under 16, and we do not accept course students under 16. Younger guests can join a family adventure, and we collect what we need about them only from their parent or guardian.
Contact
Questions? costa@costafreediving.com or (212) 602-1401. See also the terms of service.